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2009
 CIRES Fellow Balaji Rajagopalan won the World Meteorological Organization's 2009 Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award for his paper "Unraveling the Mystery of Indian Monsoon Failure during El Niño." Rajagopalan was second author on the paper, which published in Science in October of 2006. The lead author K. Krishna Kumar, from India, collaborated with Rajagopalan while a Visiting Fellow at CIRES. The WMO award recognizes an original scientific paper that successfully links meteorology with other physical, natural, or human sciences.
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 CIRES Fellow Chris Fairall was awarded the American Meteorological Society's 2009 Sverdrup Gold Medal. Fairall, who leads the Weather and Climate Physics Branch of NOAA's Physical Sciences Division in Boulder, has contributed significantly to observations and modeling of air-sea interactions and is currently working on a method for improving hurricane intensity forecasts.
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 CIRES Fellow Tingjun Zhang received a Reviewers Certificate award from the Elsevier journal, Cold Regions Science & Technology. The certificate was awarded to five reviewers who had gone above and beyond the normal peer review process. Zhang has been a member of the Cold Regions Science & Technology editorial board for more than five years. He also served as a guest editor of a recent special issue, entitled "The Qinghai-Tibet Railroad: A milestone project and its environmental impact."
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